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Parapin makes it easy to write C code under Linux that controls individual
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pins on a PC parallel port. This kind of control is very useful for
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electronics projects that use the PC's parallel port as a generic digital I/O
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interface. Parapin goes to great lengths to insulate the programmer from the
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somewhat complex parallel port programming interface provided by the PC hardware,
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making it easy to use the parallel port for digital I/O. By the same token, this
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abstraction also makes Parapin less useful in applications that need to actually
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use the parallel port as a parallel port (e.g., for talking to a printer).
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Parapin has two "personalities": it can either be used as a user-space C library,
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or linked as part of a Linux kernel module. This SlackBuild provides user-space
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only library.
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